Motivational Quotes

Business

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Business

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

10.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

11.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

12.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

13.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

14.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

15.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

16.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

17.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

18.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

19.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

20.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

21.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

22.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

23.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

24.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

25.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

26.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

27.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

28.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

29.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

30.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

31.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

32.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

33.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

34.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

35.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

36.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

38.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

39.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

41.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

42.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

43.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.